Obesity 2018

Theme:Obesity: A Dying Weigh of Life

Meetings International looks forward to welcome you all to the “International Conference on Obesity & Its Treatment” which is going to be held at San Diego, USA on August 14-15. This conference is a global platform for Obesity Professionals where we assure you to have knowledge with scholars from around the world for the best current strategies for cure & treatment of obesity.

Worldwide 300+ conferences are being organized by Meetings International Pte Ltd i.e. USA, Europe and Asia pacific regions. The main theme of this conference is “Obesity: A Dying Weigh of Life.”

Obesity means having too much body fat. It is different from being overweight, which means weighing too much. The weight may come from muscle, bone, fat, and/or body water. Both terms mean that a person's weight is greater than what's considered healthy for his or her height.

Why to Attend

With members from around the world focused on learning about obesity and its effects, this is your best opportunity to reach the largest assemblage of participants from the obesity and Endocrinology community. Obesity Conference will be an excellent opportunity as it will be the most cost-effective professional development choice. Obesity meetings will be the most relevant and densely-packed educational and networking opportunity focused on Obesity Research, Obesity issues available to professionals nationwide. Regulate presentations, spread information, be introduced to the current and potential scientists, make a feature with new drug developments, and receive name recognition at this 2-day event. World’s best-renowned speakers, the most recently updated techniques, developments, and the newest updates in obesity are the attributes of this conference.

Importance and Scope

The conference event covers a wide range of topics related to obesity while focusing on Health Problems. This obesity 2018 offers key features into evolving applications from global experts related to obesity and weight management.

Obesity is best described as a condition in which extra body fat has accumulated to such an extent that health of a person may be adversely affected.

Target Audiences:

Endocrinologists

Obesity specialists

Bariatric surgeons

Nutritionists

Dieticians

Fitness experts

Food system professionals

Drugs and Medical Devices Manufacturing Companies

Medical Colleges

Business Entrepreneurs

Why San Diego

San Diego is California’s one of the major cities in, United States. It is situated in San Diego County, on the coast of the Pacific Ocean in Southern California, approximately 120 miles (190 km) south of Los Angeles and immediately adjacent to the border with Mexico. With an evaluated population of 1,406,630 as of July 1, 2016, San Diego is the eighth-largest city in the United States and second-largest in California. It is part of the San Diego–Tijuana conurbation, the second-largest trans-border agglomeration between the US and a bordering country after Detroit–Windsor, with a population of 4,922,723 people. Climate (mild year-round climate), natural deep-water harbour, extensive beaches, long association with the United States Navy, and recent emergence as a healthcare and biotechnology development centre are the main highlights of the city. San Diego is the birthplace of California. Historically home to the Kumeyaay people, it was the first site visited by Europeans on what is now the West Coast of the United States.

Track 1: Obesity

Overweight and obesity, as well as their related noncommunicable diseases, are largely preventable. Supportive environments and communities are fundamental in shaping people’s choices, by making the choice of healthier foods and regular physical activity the easiest choice (the choice that is the most accessible, available and affordable), and therefore preventing overweight and obesity.

Most people will need to reduce their daily kilo joule intake in order to lose weight. This means eating and drinking less and making healthier food choices. One way to do this is to swap unhealthy and high energy food choices such as fast food, processed food and sugary drinks (including alcohol) for healthier choices. A very low calorie diet (VLCD) involves consuming less than containing less than 3350 kilojoules (800 calories) per day. While a VLCD can be an effective method of losing weight for some obese people, is it not a suitable method for all.

To regulate different processes, we have some chemical messengers in our body called as hormones. They are one of the main factors in causing obesity. The hormones leptin and insulin, sex hormones and growth hormone influence our appetite, metabolism (the rate at which our body burns kilojoules for energy), and body fat distribution. Obese people have high levels of these hormones that encourage abnormal metabolism and the accumulation of body fat.

Obesity in a woman during pregnancy termed as maternal obesity. Maternal obesity has a key impact on maternal metabolism and offspring development. Insulin resistance, glucose homeostasis, fat oxidation and amino acid synthesis are all disrupted by maternal obesity and contribute to adverse outcomes. Modification of lifestyle is an effective intervention strategy for improvement of maternal metabolism and the prevention of adverse outcomes.

In binge eating disorder people have a tendency for overeating or the consumption of abnormal amount of food with associated negative psychological and social problems, but without subsequent purging episodes (e.g. vomiting). Counselling and certain medication and cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) may help preventing such practices.

Like many other medical conditions, obesity is the result of genetic and environmental factors simultaneously. Polymorphisms in various genes controlling appetite and metabolism predispose to obesity when sufficient food energy is present. People with two copies of the FTO gene (fat mass and obesity associated gene) have been found on average to weigh 3–4 kg more and have a 1.67-fold greater risk of obesity compared with those without the risk allele. The differences in BMIs of people are due to genetics varies depending on the population examined from 6% to 85%.

Some studies have suggested that psychological health can improve after bariatric surgery. Several procedures have been performed on people under Bariatric surgery, who have obesity. Weight loss is achieved by reducing the size of the stomach with a gastric band or through removal of a portion of the stomach or gastric bypass surgery.

The association between obesity and risk of a variety of types of cancer has received a considerable amount of attention in recent years. Obesity has been associated with an increased risk of oesophageal cancer, pancreatic cancer, colorectal cancer, breast cancer (among postmenopausal women), endometrial cancer, kidney cancer, thyroid cancer, and gallbladder cancer. Obesity may also lead to increased cancer-related mortality.

The metabolic syndrome is a condition characterized by a major risk factor for cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes. The main, diagnostic, components are reduced HDL-cholesterol, raised triglycerides, blood pressure and fasting plasma glucose, all of which are related to weight gain, specifically intra-abdominal/ectopic fat accumulation and a large waist circumference.

As with obesity in adults, many factors contribute to the rising rates of childhood obesity. Changing diet and decreasing physical activity are believed to be the two most important causes for the recent increase in the incidence of child obesity. Because of the persistence of childhood obesity into adulthood and its association with numerous chronic illnesses, children who are obese are often tested for hypertension, diabetes, hyperlipidaemia, and fatty liver.

The main treatment for obesity concludes dieting and physical exercise. Diet programs may produce weight loss over the short term, but maintaining this weight loss is frequently difficult and often requires making exercise and a lower food energy diet a permanent part of a person's lifestyle.

Obesity causes depression. In studies it has been proved that obese people are about 25% more likely to experience a mood disorder like depression compared with those who are not affected by obesity. Obesity can cause poor self-image, low self-esteem, and social isolation, all known contributors to depression.

Weight loss and diet management is a challenge for millions of people around the world. Globally, more than 1 billion people are above an ideal weight. In addition to the negative social effects being overweight has on an individual, the health effects can be deadly. The affects weight has on life-threatening or life-altering disease are devastating. Diseases such as diabetes, heart disease, and cancer all have links to being overweight or obese.

Increasing education efforts, accessible weight management plans and foods, and a growing desire to be physically desirable have fuelled this market in more recent years. More than 100 million people in the United States are actively involved in a weight loss or weight management plan at any one time throughout the year. This suggests a demand for products and services which will continue for years to come.

The ubiquity of overweight and obesity is commonly evaluated by using body mass index (BMI). A BMI over 25 kg/m2 is defined as overweight, and a BMI of over 30 kg/m2 as obese. These markers facilitate the common benchmarks for evaluation, but the risks of disease in all populations can increase progressively from lower BMI levels.

According to the World Health Organization, adult mean BMI levels of 22-23 kg.m2 are found in Africa and Asia, while levels of 25-27 kg.m2 are prevalent across North America, Europe, and in some Latin American, North African and Pacific Island countries. BMI increases among middle-aged elderly people, who are at the greatest risk of health complications. People having a BMI below 18.5 kg/m2 tend to be underweight.

Importance and Scope

The conference event covers a wide range of topics related to obesity while focusing on Health Problems. This obesity 2018 offers key features into evolving applications from global experts related to obesity and weight management.

Obesity is best described as a condition in which extra body fat has accumulated to such an extent that health of a person may be adversely affected.

Major universities associated with Obesity research across the Globe

University of Johannesburg

Ain Shams University

North-West University

University of Cape Town

Stellenbosch University

University of the Witwatersrand

The American University in Cairo

University of Kwazulu-Natal

Rhodes University

University of Pretoria

Cairo University

University of the Western Cape

University of Da es Salaam

Makerere University

University of Ghana

University of Nairobi

Alexandria University

Al Azhar University

International University of Africa

Bindura University of Science Education

University of Gezira

Egypt Japan University of Science & Technology

University of the Free State

MISR University for Science & Technology

University of Namibia (UNAM)

Alzaiem Alazhari University

University of Mauritiu

Mansoura University

Hospitals around the world associated with obesity

UR High Land Medicine Hospital

Stanford Health Care

H&HN Hospitals & Health Networks

NH Narayana Health

Texas Heart Institute

University of Rochester Medical Centre

OWH Office on Women’s Health

Central Intelligence Agency

Encyclopedia.com

Better Health

Chestnut Hill Hospital

Laney Hospital & Medical Center

University of Maryland Medical Center

BAPEN Advancing Clinical Nutrition

SHARP Health Plan

American Diabetes Association

Heath & Social Care Information Centre

MAYO Clinic

Boston Children’s Hospital

Cleveland Clinic

Holy Cross Hospital

Henry Ford Macomb Hospitals

Mississippi State Department of Health

Johnson Country Hospital

University of Miami Hospital

Major Associations/Organizations in the World for Obesity

World Health Organization

EASO European Association for The Study of Obesity

American Heart Association

Cancer Association of South Africa

American Medical Association

The Asia Oceania Association for the Study of Obesity

American Psychological Association

DAA Dietitians Association of Australia

AMA Australian Medical Association

OBESITY AND OVERWEIGHT - World Health Organization

Childhood Obesity Organizations

Obesity & Metabolic Surgery Society of India – OSSI

Overweight & Obesity - American Heart Association

European Association for the Study of Obesity

International Association for the Study of Obesity

The International Pediatric Association

Mayo Clinic & Mayo Foundation

European Association for the Study of Obesity (EASO)

World Obesity Federation

National Obesity Foundation (NOF)

Global Obesity Prevention Center

World Heart Federation

The International Diabetes Federation

Fund Allotment to obesity Research

Obesity nearing $150 billion annually childhood obesity remains a pressing public health concern. Taxpayers fund about $60 billion of these costs through Medicare & Medicaid. If obesity rates are reduced by as little as 5 %, health care savings could exceed $29 billion. The past three decades and today, an estimated 16.9 % of U.S. children and adolescents ages 2 to 19 are obesity, 31.7 % are either obesity or overweight. In sheer numbers, more than 12 million American children and adolescents are obesity and more than 23 million are either obesity or overweight. In one large study, 61 % of overweight 5 to 10 year olds already had at least one risk factor for heart disease and 26 % had two or more risk factors. There is a 70 % chance that an overweight adolescent will be overweight or obese as an adult.

By adulthood, obesity-associated heart disease, some cancers, stroke, type-2 diabetes are the first, second, third, and seventh leading U.S causes of death. Moreover obesity is costly. Among children and adolescents, annual hospital costs related to obesity were $127 million during 1997 to 1999 up from $35 million during 1979–1981. From 1987 to 2001, obesity-associated diseases accounted for 27 % of the increases in U.S. medical costs.